— Blurt

Hey Wil : )

"I don't see it? Where?"

If you check out the votes on his comment, he's one of the voters. Generally, it's frowned upon to vote for your own comments unless there is some good reason for it. His comment is about thanking Dan for the loan, increasing the size of his vote. That's why I said it's a little brazen - he's doing something socially unacceptable (giving his own comment a juicy upvote), right in the same breath as thanking Dan for the ability to do so!

"I have always wondered if we shouldn't make it impossible to self vote via code."

From what I understand, that's easy to do in the blockchain settings. The problem is the effect it has on people's behaviours.

The main one is that people create other accounts so they can continue to upvote their own comments. We don't want to make it harder for people to create accounts, and we don't want to try to limit each human to one account. But we want to stop comment farming (leaving banal comments and upvoting them) because it is the epitome of bad curation.

Comment farming already happens a lot on Blurt, as it's hard to catch, and hard to stop even if you catch it. We don't want to encourage it even more by banning self-voting. At least when people vote on their own comment (with the same account) it's easy to spot, and give them a nudge like "hey, that's not really cool around here".

Self-voting on posts (especially if they are quality, original, etc) is generally encouraged on Blurt. A majority of users do it, and have no problem with others doing it. The owners/management/foundation and witnesses officially endorse it. Comments tend to be less effort, less visible, and more numerous, making them a much better target for farming rewards.

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